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Successful in getting people prep is having the navigators that help them arrange the appropriate insurance and find providers willing to provide it, so we have a three pronged approach for what is needed for prep. We need assistance from providers. There are providers not comfortable providing prep so support for the new prep clinics and training on line tools and assistance for the users and we still have the disparities and we need the information about availability into the communities most impacted by hiv. We would like to set up a user hot line so people can call and get information. The...

Good morning supervisors. I am jeff sheea and living with hiv and i was the hiv advocate to gavin newsom and serve on the governing board on the California Institute of regenerative medicine. Thank you supervisor wieners and supervisor campos for sponsoring this meeting and thank you supervisor farrell for the opportunity to present today and thank you Barbara Garcia and the department of Public Health and i am part of the consortium and were here to talk about the historic opportunity for San Francisco, ground zero in 1981 at the beginning of the aids epideppic to be the first mutiny of injur...

Sometime in january or february so everyone can contribute to that discussion before we approve the new policy. Then, other things that we looked at today, its on your consent calendar including the new site approval for house [inaudible] they are going to move from their Current Location that is been [inaudible] for over 20 years for a new location on Howard Street and also on the consent calendar you have order court contracts that need your approval as well as 2014 december contract reports. And then one other thing that i think is worth mentioning is about collective action plans. We have ...

People have access, not just to testing, but also to treatment, and also to prep, and i know we have to continue to do a lot of work to make sure that were expanding access to preexposure prove axis and i asked to be assigned to the Budget Committee because i know were all working hard to come forward with a proposal for the next budget to make sure were funding some of these getting to zero efforts so its exciting and i look forward to working with everyone and move forward, and i want to offer supervisor campos the opportunity to speak before we get to our wonderful list of speakers today. T...

There are providers not comfortable providing prep so support for the new prep clinics and training on line tools and assistance for the users and we still have the disparities and we need the information about availability into the communities most impacted by hiv. We would like to set up a user hot line so people can call and get information. Theres a lot of questions that individuals have about prep and we need to address affordability and then we want to measure the impact of prep, both theup take of prep, the benefits of prep but also any negative consequences and in particular we know of...